Listening to RnaG really helps. You could do what I did and start off just listening to one programme in your dialect, from there you can begin to listen to programmes in general when you get comfortable. Why not Ardtráthnóna with Máirtín Tom Sheáinín as the presenter? He has a really good programme on TG4 called Comhrá as well.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Ó is anú d'fheadfeadh Sarah airgead an Bh and B a thabhairt do Bhernie. Lódgáil ... an t-iomlán in éineacht.

Anú = ofcourse/sure

The missing word sounds like "doirín", but I don't know if that makes sense. But I'm probably totally wrong.



do - is usually pronounced as "go" in Conamara too.

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I use BOX for file-sharing. It's easy to use and you get a separate link for each file.

https://www.box.com/personal/

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Hi again,

Sorry I didn't come back earlier. I got ill and couldn't think straight for a few days.

I bet listening to RnaG helps. Maybe that was my problem that I just listened to whatever was on air when I switched on and didn't understand the other dialects. (Or maybe it was just my really bad listening comprehension skills. ) I think I'll give it another try once things have calmed down a bit here and I'm less busy. Thanks for the recommendations, Lon Dubh!

Thanks a million for the new transcription, a Bhríd! Somewhere in your gap I seem to hear "Bernie" which would make sense in the context but doesn't sound like "doirín" at all... Do you think there is some sort of tense marking on the "lodgeáil"? "lodgeálfaidh" or "lodgeálfadh" or something like that?

Btw, BOX looks nice. Guess I'll use that the next time then. I'm new to this file-sharing thing...

Just listened to that. I think Bríd has it sussed all right. This is what I could hear/guess/imagine from it:

Fós ar ndó d'fhéadfadh Sarah airgead an Bh and B a thabhairt do Bhernie's - lodgeálfadarna an t-iomlán de in éineacht.

...with the 'do Bhernie's' pronounced as 'dho Bhernie's'..
the 'lodgeálfadarna' sounds strange but oddly familiar?? - if I have it copped right at all in the first place!! - but I might say 'lodgeálfaidh siadsan' or something along that line...

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

Listening to it again I think you could be right, it's probably-

...lodgeálfaidh Bernie an t-iomlán in éineacht.

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That would make more sense. Mh'anam but it's difficult when you have it pulled out like that without context or surrounding story. He could be saying 'B(h)ernie' there all right, since I presume that Bernie will be doing the lodgeáil.

So, perhaps:
Fós ar ndó d'fhéadfadh Sarah airgead an Bh and B a thabhairt do Bhernie's - lodgeálfaidh Bernie an t-iomlán de in éineacht.

Assuming that he is pronouncing 'Bernie' as 'Bhernie', then it might also be 'go Bhernie's' instead of 'do Bhernie's' but I cannot tell - but I would if using 'go' be inclined to use 'go dtí' since it is a particular place Sarah is bringing the money. Oh the poor cloigeann... LOL...

I can hardly hear the first word - do you think it is 'fós'...?

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

I think the beginning is -

Ó is ndó d'fheadfeadh Sarah airgead an Bh and B a thabhairt go* Bhernie. Lodgeálfaidh Bernie an t-iomlán in éineacht.

I wrote it as "anú" which is how I pronounce it, but like Braoin siad the proper spelling is "ndó" ... or maybe "ndóigh".

*do - is usually pronounced as "go" in Conamara (go Bhearnie).


Bring on the next one Aisling

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Wow, what a lively discussion that has evolved here!

It's difficult to give the entire context, but I think the subtitle captures the gist of it quite well: "Sarah can give Bernie the B&B money and Bernie can lodge it all." (The sentence right before it is "A Pheadair, cad faoin mB&B? Airgead an B&B?" and the wider context is the two running the B&B going on holidays and trying to organize someone to stand in for them in their two businesses.)

It's amazing what you two get out of the sentences. I get the "Fós ar ndó/ndóigh" with a bit of imagination, but I'm not even able to hear "(de) in éineacht" now that you've identified it. It just sounds like "tilwomangeno" to me.

Anyway, it makes sense in the context, so I think I'll write it down as
Fós ar ndó d'fhéadfadh Sarah airgead an Bh and B a thabhairt do Bhernie - lodgeálfaidh Bernie an t-iomlán de in éineacht.

I'm not sure about the English genitive though. Listening to it, it might well be "do Bhernie's", but does that make sense? I'd rather say the hissing sound is due to his muffled articulation.


Don't tempt me - I might well do it.